20.11.10 patches review and test

[Luca Boccassi]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 at 15:23, Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com> wrote:
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> > Subject: 20.11.10 patches review and test
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.10.
> >
> > The planned date for the final release is December 12th.
> >
> > Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report
> > any issues/results with reply-all to this mail. For the final release
> > the fixes and reported validations will be added to the release notes.
> >
>
> Hello,
>
> We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on v20.11.10-rc1:
> - Basic functionality:
>   Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
> - testpmd xstats counter test.
> - testpmd timestamp test.
> - Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
> - rte_flow tests (https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#supported-hardware-offloads)
> - RSS tests.
> - VLAN filtering, stripping, and insertion tests.
> - Checksum and TSO tests.
> - ptype tests.
> - link_status_interrupt example application tests.
> - l3fwd-power example application tests.
> - Multi-process example applications tests.
> - Hardware LRO tests.
>
> Functional tests ran on:
> - NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.10-0.5.5.0 / Firmware: 22.39.1002
> - NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.10-0.5.5.0 / Firmware: 28.39.1002
> - DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 2.2.0 / Firmware: 24.38.1002
>
> Additionally, we ran build tests with multiple configurations on the following OS/driver combinations:
> - Ubuntu 22.04.3 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.10-0.5.5.0.
> - Ubuntu 20.04.6 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.07-0.5.1.2.
> - Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core master (0cf342c).
> - Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core v28.0.
> - Fedora 38 with rdma-core v44.0.
> - Fedora 40 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v48.0.
> - OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 with rdma-core v42.0.
> - Windows Server 2019 with Clang 16.0.6.
>
> We don't see new issues caused by the changes in this release.

Thank you!